Just curious, has Dr. Fred Berlin wrote/said anything about reorientation therapy? What are his views?

Ivan.

Depression, which is vegetative, does not explain the perpetrators ability to plan, in such detail, such a devious and visciuos plan.

The intensely aggressive nature of the attack is troublesome for a depressive diagnosis as well.

Furthermore, the attack seems to be on children who remind him of his daughter. He seems to be both punishing her and the parents who had the joy of raising their children.

There is inherent narcissism in the act which is not addressed.

Berlin creates unecessary alarm by diagnosing the perpetrator with depression (a common mental illness). If Berlin suffered from a mental illness, it was a rare form which he responded to in a narcissistic and exploitative manner…most severely mentally ill people do not become violent.

Delusional?

This is a very unusual diagnostic picture but as a projective device his anger at God, his daughter and the parents who had loved their children seems inescapable.

David Blakeslee